Chrome for Android “Link you Copied” Incognito Mode [New Feature]

Today, while I was working on making a website I’m developing mobile friendly, I had navigated to it in my Chrome browser. In an attempt to get a fresh, non-cached look at my most recent change, I copied the link, and proceeded to open an Incognito tab.

Upon touching the URL bar with my finger, I noticed something new, a little option underneath the URL bar that said “Link you copied” and underneath that, it displayed the URL I had copied to my clipboard.

Tapping on this of course opened that link in the Incognito tab.

A little research revealed that the feature has existed since about April, and is available in Chrome 59 for Android, and will work on devices as far back as Kit Kat.

And, unsurprisingly, the feature has apparently been available in the iOS version of Chrome for some time now

I was not able to get this to work in the Android version of Chrome Beta (60.0.3112.78) on my Asus Chromebook C302.